John Catsimatidis Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.”

“We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.”

“What transpired at Semgroup was no less than a $500 billion fraud on the people of the world.”

“What's worse than getting divorced?”

“While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.”

“You have to work at everything. You've got to make it work.”

“I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.”

“I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.”

“The reason I grew so fast in the supermarket business, without help of the banks in those days, was through my vendors. I convinced my vendors, the companies I was doing business with, if I did more business, they would do more business.”

“When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.”